Power Tools for the Analyst – Desktop ProductsWard Yaternick2019-02-06T16:36:43+00:00

Power Tools for the Analyst – Desktop Products

NEXT Analytics desktop software, both macOS and Windows Excel, is the most powerful Excel Addin on the market today for downloading data from Google Analytics, Adwords, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and more.

The data is downloaded directly from the data service to your desktop computer without an intermediate service, so your data is secure and you are not restricted to a certain number of accounts, volume or update frequency.

Techhnical users enjoy the ability to create powerful queries.

Google Analytics, you can produce multi-segment, multi-view reports quite easily. Data is downloadable in such a way as to avoid data sampling in many cases.

Facebook Posts, you can download a fan page’s posts and comments as well as valuable statistics. If you are the administrator of the page, you can see user information.

Desktop Full Version – Monthly and Annual Subscriptions

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We take pride in our support. Indeed, part of what you’re paying for when you subscribe to our software is knowing you have experts available to answer your difficult questions in rapid response. You can get high quality help, fast, by sending an email to support@nextanalytics.com.

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User Guide (Windows)

The Excel Addin automatically downloads a great many pre-built spreadsheets that automatically download data. You can use these spreadsheets to build dashboards. If they don’t contain the combinations of dimensions and metrics that you seek, then you can click the Custom button on the Ribbon Bar. Click this button to download instructions on how to use the Custom query creation.

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